Copyright St John's College Robert Graves Trust

February 1935

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Tuesday Feb 26th

Tuesday Feb 26th

Gelat &
Bernardo came and I spent the whole
morning with Gelat on
Luna land looking at possible places to
build new terraces to make room for almond trees. This means removing a
number of old olives but they are past bearing and are worth 5O-1OO
pesetas each as timber. In several places they will pay for the work &
for the new trees. Also decided on the square concrete posts (Laura,Gelat
& I) with wood transoms
1 for training
the vines across in Canellun garden near
the front entrance & also below in the grotto.
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Also decided to begin mending the
road to the sea which was carried away in a cloudburst on the night of
Sept.29th 1933. And on gate to
keep out sheep on the
camino viejo

Gelat

Bernardo

Colom, Bernardo

Ex Cuban, previous owner of 'Son Canals', and former owner of 'Luna land' (on the
other side of the road) cf. Married to a Cuban lady. Sons: Marcos (married to Gelat's
daughter Magdalena) and Pancho. KG & WG

Renaults

Renaults

From Cala Ratxada, a village on the northeast coast of the island. Diary/W.G.

Miguel

Miguel

One of four village carpenters. Others were Miguel Junior, Francisco and Antonio de
Ca's Pintat. WG

Sidney Bernstein

Bernstein, Sidney

Film Producer. Evidently given a negative review by Socialist film reviewer, Cedric
Belfrage.

Belfrage

Belfrage, Cedric

Cedric Belfrage, who began his career as a U.S.-based film critic reporting for the
British Press on Hollywood in the 1920's. Described as a radical author and socialist
journalist. C.P.